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born 1982 South Africa
Teko Tsholofelo Modise (born 22 December 1982), nicknamed the General, the Navigator and Techno M, is a South African retired professional footballer, former Bafana Bafana captain who played as a midfielder and who is currently a staff member at Cape Town City Football Club.
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I'm more open now, more receptive of the fact that I need to speak to the media – I have to – I'm part of the media.
But it's a journey that actually took me years to be able to sit down with you and come and speak to you.
I think if that jersey came earlier, I would have loved to wear that number. It’s a very iconic number at Orlando Pirates
But once I started liking myself more, not taking myself too seriously, my walls started falling down a little bit.
This is something that I worked hard to get to and now that I'm here, I can't be complaining. This is what I enjoy doing, I don't mind it at all.
In football, we all know that I was very comfortable and very confident.
Yeah, man, it was just a journey that was very difficult because you need to unlearn all the bad habits.
I'm very cognisant of the fact I'm very lucky and the fact that brands do not see me as a former footballer, but as a businessperson, a person that they can invest their money in.
But from a personal point of view, I wasn't content with myself, and I didn't like myself as much
And I’m still proud and happy that I was offered the jersey. But it came at a wrong time
As you mature as a man, you let go of certain things. You know, I let go of being scared to talk to the media or disliking the media
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